Football: Dangerous Game or Not?
Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been football. I remember my friend talking about it when I was eleven years old, but at that time, my sports interests were basketball and soccer. Lately the issue has caught my eye again. I know that many people feel that football is a violent and reckless game. From what I have heard, football is a physical and emotional game. For example, I heard that if a team does not get to the Super Bowl they start to tear and cry. Now that is just what I have heard, it may or may not be true.
One thing that I know for sure about football is that every team plays 16 games in a season. Now, I have studied my share of Football, for example I read in sports articles that the NFL play 16 games in a season, and there is a playoff and a Super Bowl after. I believe there should be more games in a season. Personally, it is funny to me how when I was in 8th grade my friend John talked about in his essay how he did not understand the game of football. He believed it was unnecessary for a player to injure himself just to get a ring on his finger.
Football in the past was not important to me because I never found any interest in the violence that occurred in the sport. I felt football was just big meaty people just knocking each other out. I know that football was a sport taken from rugby, which is a very violent sport in which players don’t wear any protective equipment. I also know that in football every team’s goal is to win a Lombardi trophy for their franchise.
Being that I did not have a lot of background information on football, I chose to do some research on the topic. As I searched for blogs and news articles on Google, I came across this one article: “The Problem with Football: How to make it Safer. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1957459-1,00.html This article provided a lot of information and opinions on football. Some people feel that football is a violent game that causes brain disease, which leads to death for NFL players. In addition, football is causing many young kids to like the idea of playing football, which may lead kids to getting brain damage when they play football. A quote from the article is “We need to do something now, this minute," says McKee, the brain researcher. "Too many kids are at risk.” This statement did not really surprise me all that much, but it did make me feel worried. I feel worried because I do not want young kids to have brain damage playing football and I do not want them to lose their memories of their childhood in the future.
In another article, one statement made me nod my head in agreement with the writer. It was “Playing football leads to concussions which lead to brain injury which lead to depression, substance abuse and worse.” This is so true because pro NFL play Andre Waters took his life because of what scientists believe to be depression caused by brain damage in football. I think this is also true because football players start to act stupidly when off the field.For example shooting themselves in the leg or even betting on dog matches.
All of this makes me think that football is truly a dangerous game. Player risk their brains just to make quick money, but at the end, their lives are taken from them in a short amount of time. Parents should also be careful to what sports they allow their kids to play, because it will decided if their alive or dead in the future.
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It's a contact sprot
Mostly all Sports are about playing hard, being competitive and even getting hurt. Everyone knows it's all part of the game. But Football is a contact sport. The whole purpose is to hit your man as hard as you can so you get get the ball.
One sentence that you wrote that stood out to me was: "I felt football was just big meaty people just knocking each other out." I still think this what they are doing. I'm not much of a football fan and I don't really know too much, but I watch the super bowl every year.
For me, I think that football is a dangerous sport because it just looks like it hurts when you get tackled by my like eight people at once.
Dear dandan :I liked you
Dear dandan :
I liked your post, “ Football: Dangerous Game Or Not,” because you had a lot of details and articles to back up your theory. Another reason is because you had a lot of good stuff to say about this topic. One sentence you wrote that stood out for me is: “ Player risk their brains just to make quick money, but at the end, their lives are taken from them in a short amount of time.” I think this is true because the players tackle each other and sometime they tackle too hard and end up hurting somebody.
Another sentence that I liked was: “ I feel worried because I do not want young kids to have brain damage playing football and I do not want them to lose their memories of their childhood in the future.” This stood out for me because some kids play tackle football without any protection and this could be dangerous.
Your post reminds me of something that happened to me. One time I nevered liked that sport because I thought that tackling was a waste. Also that I was concerned for the players because they could tackle each other hard and hurt each other dangerously.
Thanks for your writing. I look forward to seeing what you write next, because you had great example and you told a little story about yourself. Another reason is because your topic was interesting.
Interesting
Dear Daniel:
I like your post, "Football: Dangerous Game or Not?," because I also like to play football. I do understand that the stereotype of football is that it is very dangerous. In reality it is not athletes who play football have equipments as protection lowering the percentages of them getting hurt. One sentence you wrote that stands out for me is: "I know that football was a sport taken from rugby, which is a very violent sport in which players don’t wear any protective equipment." I think this is absurd because I think many people refer to the original game more than actual football. Since they know that rugby is dangerous which it is they think that football is as well.
Another sentence that I found interesting was: "How to make it Safer." This stood out for me because if people actually knew how to play football it would probably be much more safer you wont have people doing dirty plays, and doing stupid stuff.
Thanks for your writing. I look forward to seeing what you write next, because we both share the love for football and want to show people that it is not as dangerous as they think.
Dear Daniel , I liked your
Dear Daniel ,
I liked your post, “Football Dangerous Game or Not?” Because you provided a lot of information about football. I also liked it because I could agree with your way of thinking.One sentence you wrote that stood out for me is, “Parents should also be careful to what sports they allow their kids to play, because it will decided if their alive or dead in the future.” I strongly agree with this because if parents are not careful with what their child play then it could affect them in the future. This sentence also stood out because when you think of it sports could be dangerous and if parents don’t look out for their child then who will.
Another sentence I agreed with is, “I think this is also true because football players start to act stupidly when off the field.” This stood out to me because I heard on t.v and newspaper of football players breaking the laws and harming themselves.
Your post reminds of when I use to play football. My friends and I use to play tackle in the snow . Every time I finished playing I will get some strong headaches , but I loved football so much that pain wouldn’t bother me. Also I was so obessed with footballl that I cut school once just to play for longer.
Thanks for your writing. I look forward to reading your future post because this post entertained me. Also because I think I could connected with your future post and agree with you.